Santiam 4 showing at LaSells Stewart Guistina Gallery

© Pam Van Londen 2007 Santiam River 3 16x20 oil on canvas in an oak frameThe fouth painting started at the Santiam River last month is finished and hanging in a frame at the Guistina Gallery in the LaSells Stewart Center on the OSU campus.

The painting is unusual for me; brushstrokes are short and obvious, the composition is abstracted quite a bit from the original scene, and the use of color is exaggerated.

I enjoyed working on this one and hope to do more like it when we return to the river in August or September.